Louis Braille

The ability to both write and read is impartial to achieve success and subsequently good quality of life in today's world. Every activity requires one to be literate to participate effectively at home and society at large, like jotting down notes, reading road signs, making a shopping list and so forth. This is where Louis Braille’s invention, the Braille system comes in. His ultimate invention has helped many lives around the world, although he lived two centuries ago. In other words, the Braille system is to the person with vision loss what the printed word is to the sighted individual, which is access to information and contact with the outside world.
Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France, on January 4, 1809. He lost his sight at the young age of three when he wounded his right eye with an awl while playing in his father's workshop. Because of the lack of knowledge of his medical condition at that time, both his eyes including the left one eventually became completely blind due to subsequent sympathetic ophthalmia by the time he turned five. Nevertheless, young Louis’ determination to learn to read was overwhelming. He realized his disability locked out the vast world of knowledge, and was determined to find a solution not only for himself but other blind people as well. In spite of his impairment, he enrolled in a regular school, attended regular classes and was subsequently accepted into the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. While there, Braille yearned to read more books so he experimented with ways to make an alphabet that was easy to read with the fingertips. That was how the Braille system was invented. Even after his death at the age of 43, Braille’s alphabet continued to gain acknowledgement around the world until present time.
Louis Braille’s invention utilizes a series of raised dots that can be read with the fingers tips of people who are blind or whose eyesight is not sufficient for reading physical material. The Braille symbols are